Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in New Iberia, LA. For the topic this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that published in the January 2011 edition of EHS Today. It was titled “Why We Fail to See Risk” The published article can be found at www.EHSToday.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.
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Greetings, this podcast recorded while on the road in Irvine, Scotland. For this week I’d like to share an article I wrote called “The Folly of Safety Training” that was published the June 2010 edition of Occupational Health and Safety.The published article can either be found at http://ohsonline.com/articles/2010/06/01/the-folly-of-safety-training.aspx?sc_lang=en or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com. I hope you enjoy this reading of The Folly of Safety Training.
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Abstract: Many companies are focused on creating an improved safety culture and have achieved success in doing so. You may have heard of the book by Marshal Goldsmith titled, “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” and the same holds true for maintaining a safety culture. In this session we will discuss ways to continuously increase the positive factor of your safety culture and ensure that you don’t fall into traps that negatively affect your success.
American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) SeminarFest 2010
Topic: #50 Training Supervisors to Become Safety Coaches
Abstract: In this seminar, you will learn to turn supervisors, who are often an obstacle to safety, into safety coaches who can identify and modify the behaviors that cause accidents. The coaching skills taught will also help improve many other areas of worker performance and build supportive relationships between supervisors and workers. Learn to:
·Train supervisors on coaching skills they can use to assist workers in becoming more safe and more productive
·Motivate supervisors to participate in safety efforts and make it an important part of their job description
·Focus safety efforts on a list of precautions that are within the power of supervisors and workers to control
American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) SeminarFest 2010
Topic: #46 Balanced Scorecard Approach to Determine Safety Program Effectiveness
Abstract: What gets measured gets managed. This statement is true in safety. The Balanced Scorecard System is a management system that can provide a new approach to measurement of safety program effectiveness. The Balanced Scorecard system provides a clear vision of the status of an operation and translates that vision into actions that facilitate identification of improvement in safety results. Using this system, you will learn to organize benchmarks in four perspective categories, learning and growth, business process, customer and financial. Using these four perspectives, you will learn to establish metrics that can be collected and analyzed on a continual basis to achieve a more meaningful metric for measurement of safety improvements. Learn to:
·Define the Balanced Scorecard management system and describe its application to safety management
·Implement the Balanced Scorecard management system to measure the effectiveness of your safety and health program
2010 Industrial Minerals Technology Workshop
Topic: Behavior-Based Safety’s Role in a Mine’s Safety Culture
Date: 23 February 2010
Speaker: Shawn M. Galloway, President and Chief Operating Officer, ProAct Safety
Abstract: Behavior-Based Safety is often a misunderstood tool. It is not the preverbal silver bullet, nor is every mining environment ready for it. What leads to success in one mine could be problematic for another, because no two mines have the same culture. Understanding and enhancing your culture is the first step towards sustained excellence in safety. This presentation discovers the opportunities to customize and apply site-specific advanced behavioral and cultural principles to safety. Join us in exploring the elements necessary to internally achieve and sustain safety excellence by focusing on your most effective sustainability tool, your culture.
Abstract: This intensive, highly interactive workshop will fully qualify attendees to return to their companies prepared to design a customized plan to strategically implement a Behavior-Based Safety process. This approach is an option for companies who want to maximize their own ability to implement Behavior-Based Safety while minimizing outside costs.
Greetings everyone from my home in The Woodlands, Texas. This year I begin to not only promise to provide weekly audio files to help you improve safety; I will be publishing monthly videos as well. We will keep these videos under 10 minutes in length so they can be used in quick meetings. This month I ask the question, do you have a personal safety focus for 2010? Many of us make New Year’s Resolutions, but what will we focus on in 2010 to help us stay safe?
I would like to encourage you to consider watching what you are standing on, climbing on and walking on this year. In many countries the number one cause of accidental death in the homes, are slips, trips and falls. There are two life precautions that can help prevent this from occurring to you: Eyes on path/work and Footing. Below are some examples.
1.Eyes on path/work (keep eyes in direction of travel and task)
a.When walking keep eyes on path of travel. (i.e. looking behind while backing up)
b.When operating mobile equipment always scan ahead for pedestrians & obstructions.
c.Maintain focus on surroundings, body position, and equipment when performing a task
2.Footing (stay on designated walkways/3-point contact on stairs)
a.When walking up/down stairs use handrails and take one step at a time.
b.When climbing up/down ladders use 3-point contact and keep body facing toward ladder
c.Maintain 3-point contact when (getting on/off a equipment)
What are some other examples you can think of? Consider sharing these with a group of people and ask them to identify examples of how these precautions could help them remain safe.
Thank you again for tuning in and let’s keep 2010 a safe year!
Greetings, this podcast recorded in Avon Lake, OH. “Most safety culture improvement initiatives either start at the top or the bottom of the organizational structure: executive coaching for senior managers or workforce teambuilding for the rank and file. Some experts believe that safety begins with leadership, others stress that worker behavior has the most impact on safety. Both approaches can achieve improvement. However, there are organizations with good reasons to delay these approaches and start safety improvement in the middle.” – Terry L. Mathis.
In the August 2009 edition of EHS Today, Terry Mathis, the Founder and CEO of our firm ProAct Safety, published an article that I would like to share with you today. If you would like to see the actual article, please visit EHS Today’s website at www.EHSToday.com or you can find it on our website at www.ProActSafety.com along with a lot of other free content to improve your safety focus.
Greetings, this podcast recorded in Indianapolis, Indiana. For this week, Terry and I would like to share with you seven principles to consider, when providing training to adults. We will discuss some of the theories and some of the myths, what to ensure and what to avoid. If you would like a copy of a slide that represents the seven principles of Adult Learning please email us. The email address can be found at the end of the podcast.
Greetings, recording and editing this week from The Woodlands, Texas. The topic this week comes from a subscriber who sent us the following message: “Our company is rolling out a campaign that says, There Are No Accidents! This is creating some disconnect between the union and management with a lot guys thinking that management is out of touch with safety issues. What are your thoughts on this? Do you believe this is true, that there are no accidents?”
This week Terry and I will respond to this question but let me first say that I believe that this message usually is well intended. There are some videos available on the internet that leverages this slogan. Typically the message is positioned to get people to see that all accidents have a prevention opportunity somewhere along the chain of events. The thought is that if you can focus everyone on seeing these prevention points we can often stop the chain of events from resulting in an unplanned outcome. It is often easy to utilize a saying to spread a message as it gives people something to associate their thoughts with. The danger is when posters are hung and slogans are haphazardly used without thoroughly and effectively communicating the message. On another note, please do not forget to visit www.proactsafety.com and click on events to find where we will be speaking at or the dates for one of our public workshops.
Host: Shawn Galloway, President & COO - ProAct Safety
Presenter: Terry Mathis, Founder & CEO - ProAct Safety
What You Will Learn:
What is Lean BBS®? - Lean is not just less
Why this approach has become the most successful in the industry
What options are available for Behavior-Based Safety in today's lean atmosphere
How Lean Behavior-Based Safety works in logistically challenged organizations
The typical results that a company should expect
How to identify if your company is not ready for Behavior-Based Safety
How to ensure success and trust with represented workforces (Labor Unions)
Why customization is vital if sustainability is your goal.
Existing processes - critical questions and easy to spot waste
What it takes to ensure success of a Lean Behavior-Based Safety approach
Lean Behavior-Based Safety is based on the philosophy of achieving faster accident reductions with the minimum internal resources and external cost requirements, ultimately achieving a more sustainable internalized continuous improvement process.
Borrowing proven techniques from Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and experiences from over 1000 successful implementations, Lean Behavior-Based Safety has proven to be the most efficient and practical approach to an already effective theoretical process.
Greetings from Indianapolis, Indiana. “Because of the reactive approach to measuring and managing safety prevalent in the world today, the true definition of safety success has been obscured. The surface definition of safety success on most safety professionals’ minds is simply a reduction in the failure rate. We have been so busy avoiding failure that we need to remind ourselves what success looks like. The word “success” tends to surface every time the accident rates go down, but does the lack of accidents really equate to safety success?” - Terry Mathis
In September’s edition of EHS today another of Terry’s articles was published. We received some great feedback from the article, including a request to record it here for the subscribers of Safety Culture Excellence. So the podcast this week is a reading of the recent article “What Does Safety Success Look Like? by Terry Mathis. It was published on the 1st of September, 2008 in EHS Today. The online article can be found at: http://ehstoday.com/safety/management/safety_success/index.html
If you are listening to this file through streaming media and would like to download it for later use, all files and other ideas to help you bring positive improvement in your safety culture can be found at www.safetycultureexcellence.com or you can visit our consulting firm’s website at www.proactsafety.com
Greetings from Colmar France, located in the beautiful region of Alsace. This week I will be concluding Terry’s thoughts on this topic by providing the final part of this four-part series. Terry Mathis will begin by discussing the need for a multidimensional approach to safety, rather than a single methodology or single science. He will also be weighing in on the need for rapid cycle success vs. just small improvements eventually recognized over time. Both are important however you are fighting an uphill battle trying to integrate safety into the fabric of organizational activities, if they are not targeting rapid success. As we have found to get to this point of sustainability, you have to recognize the difference in theory and practice. If it is not practical now, how long will it really last?
I hope you enjoyed this series, tune in next week for more topics!
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